John Millington Synge (1871–1909)
Forfatter af The Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays
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After graduating from Trinity College, Dublin, Synge left for Europe to write poetry. If W. B. Yeats had not discovered him in Paris and persuaded him to return to Ireland and absorb its native traditions, the Irish renaissance might have lost its best playwright. As it was, Synge's poetry of vis mere Celtic romanticism was rather more tempered with a European realism than Yeats and his renaissance had anticipated. Yeats sent Synge to the West of Ireland to get to know the peasants there. The result was, in addition to the journal The Aran Islands (1907), two short plays for the Abbey: The Shadow of the Glen (1903), in which a comic resurrection interrupts a widow's marriage bargaining, and Riders to the Sea (1904), about a mother's loss of her last son, a perfect condensed tragedy and probably the finest one-act play. The poorly received The Well of the Saints (1905), whose characters vehemently reject reality for comfortable illusion, offered the Abbey audience a warning of what was to come. This was Synge's masterpiece, The Playboy of the Western World (1907), which touched off rioting at the theater. The playboy is Christy Mahon, a lout who becomes a hero among the Mayo peasantry when he boasts he has murdered his father. Satire on Irish romanticism conceals a parable of the poet's development and estrangement from his public. But Dublin nationalists heard only the people slandered, and Dublin prudery heard only the forbidden word "shifts" on Christy's lips. Playboy was the last play Synge saw staged. He died of cancer at age 37, never having completed Deirdre of the Sorrows (1910), his only work in the Celtic legendary mode. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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Værker af John Millington Synge
Letters to Molly: John Millington Synge to Maire O'Neill, 1906-1909 (Belknap Press) (1971) 9 eksemplarer
Plays By John M. Synge. The Playboy Of The Western World, The Tinker's Wedding, The Shadow Of The Glen. (1929) 9 eksemplarer
The works of John M. Synge 7 eksemplarer
Plays By John M. Synge. Riders to the Sea, Deirdre of the Sorrows, The Well of the Saints (1941) 5 eksemplarer
Uaigneas an Ghleanna agus Chun na Farraige Sios 5 eksemplarer
Delphi Complete Works of J. M. Synge (Illustrated) (Delphi Series Nine Book 14) (2018) 5 eksemplarer
My wallet of photographs. The collected photographs of i.e. taken by J. M. Synge, arranged and introduced by Lilo… (1971) 4 eksemplarer
Genets cap a la mar. Les bodes del llauner (Riders to the Sea. The Tinker's Wedding) (1995) 3 eksemplarer
Collected Plays: The Shadow Of The Glen; Riders To The Sea; The Tinker's Wedding; The Well of The Saints; The… 2 eksemplarer
The Playboy of the Western World & Riders to the Sea 2 eksemplarer
STÜCKE. Die Nebelschlucht. Reiter zum Meer. Die Kesselflickerhochzeit. Der Held der westlichen Welt. 2 eksemplarer
Some Sonnets from "Laura In Death" After the Italian of Francesco Petrarch. Intr (1971) 2 eksemplarer
Thre 2 eksemplarer
Some Letters of John M. Synge to Lady Gregory and W.B. Yeats. Limited Edition. Cuala Press (1971) 2 eksemplarer
Two plays 1 eksemplar
Four Plays and the Aran Islands 1 eksemplar
La fonte dei santi: Cavalcata a Mare. (riders to the sea). Traduzione [dall'inglese] di Carlo Linati 1 eksemplar
Il furfantello dell'Ovest: e altri drammi 1 eksemplar
Drammi irlandesi 1 eksemplar
Le isole di Aran 1 eksemplar
The Works Of John M. Synge ...: The Playboy Of The Western World. Deirdre Of The Sorrows. Poems. Translations (2018) 1 eksemplar
Poem and translations / by John M. Synge 1 eksemplar
Druid Theatre Company - DruidSynge: The Plays Of John Millington Synge (booklet and 2 DVDs) (2006) 1 eksemplar
Hjälten på den gröna ön 1 eksemplar
Cavaliers à la mer 1 eksemplar
Three Irish Plays 1 eksemplar
With Petrarch : twelve sonnets 1 eksemplar
Theatrum Mundi: Theater aus England und Irland 1 eksemplar
Works 1 eksemplar
The Well of the Saints: Epitaph Under Ether 1 eksemplar
Poetry & Drama 1 eksemplar
Collected plays by John M. Synge 1 eksemplar
ديدري فتاة الأحزان 1 eksemplar
Collected Plays and Poems and the Aran Islands 1 eksemplar
When the Moon Has Set 1 eksemplar
Le baladin du monde occidental. 1 eksemplar
DruidSynge: The Plays of John Millington Synge — Playwright — 1 eksemplar
The playboy of the western world 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver — 917 eksemplarer
Playwrights on Playwriting: The Meaning and Making of Modern Drama from Ibsen to Ionesco (1960) — Bidragyder — 110 eksemplarer
Cavalcade of comedy; 21 brilliant comedies from Jonson and Wycherley to Thurber and Coward (1953) — Bidragyder — 96 eksemplarer
Contemporary Drama: European, English and Irish, American Plays (1941) — Bidragyder — 17 eksemplarer
The Bibelot, Volume XIX: A Reprint of Poetry and Prose for Book Lovers, Chosen in Part from Scarce Editions and Sources… (1913) — Bidragyder — 5 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Juridisk navn
- Synge, John Millington
- Andre navne
- Synge, J.M.
- Fødselsdato
- 1871-04-16
- Dødsdag
- 1909-03-24
- Begravelsessted
- Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin, Ireland
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- Ireland
- Fødested
- Rathfarnham, County Dublin, Ireland
- Dødssted
- Dublin, Ireland
- Bopæl
- Dublin, Ireland
Aran Islands, Ireland - Uddannelse
- Trinity College, Dublin
- Erhverv
- playwright
director (Abbey Theatre)
poet - Organisationer
- Abbey Theatre
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The Playboy of the Western World af John Millington Synge
I admit, I struggle to see the significance. On the other hand, the writing of the Irish Language is beautiful.
This was not at all what I was expecting from the title. I can see that it would be funnier on stage, and the Irish dialect and vocabulary would really support the 'plot', but I mainly found it tiresome. It was also quite predictable, apart from the final twist, which I really didn't see coming.
Really 3½ stars and 4 stars for the full cast LibriVox recording (the last play in a collection of one act plays found here).
I read this extremely short one act play (contained in the book [b:Five Great Modern Irish Plays|3743896|Five Great Modern Irish Plays|George Jean Nathan|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|3787724]) while listening to the LibriVox recording. The Irish voices of the cast helped bring the play to life for me. The play itself is very sad, about a woman wholoses her last remaining son to an accidental drowning just the day after another son's body has been identified. …
This play stands up well to reading (as opposed to seeing a performance).… (mere)
I read this extremely short one act play (contained in the book [b:Five Great Modern Irish Plays|3743896|Five Great Modern Irish Plays|George Jean Nathan|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png|3787724]) while listening to the LibriVox recording. The Irish voices of the cast helped bring the play to life for me. The play itself is very sad, about a woman who
This play stands up well to reading (as opposed to seeing a performance).… (mere)
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